Shading Yellow: a Copic Tutorial

I’ve seen this question come up A LOT lately! Maybe its from the warmer, sunnier weather 🙂 This little bit is something I learned when I used to do a lot more painting but the idea totally applies to copics too. If you try to shade yellow with a grey/black it usually turns out green and just kind of icky. I always encourage you to experiment and find your own likes but Y26 and Y28 are my go tos for shading yellow. I hope you enjoyed the tut and I hope it was helpful!

So glad you found it helpful! I haven’t tried it but a couple good candidates to try out would be the E30s, E40s or E50s. They all seem to have a bit of yellow in them anyway so they might work really well! Let me know if you try it and how it works out!

Great! When I started with Copics I bought Y11Y13 Y15. Blending these just gave me plain yellow =/ I got so frustrated that I never touched them again =P
I’m happy to find out that I have the perfect colors for shading already in my possession =) Thx!